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- Title
"Ballot-Faking Crooks and a Tyrannical Executive": The Australian Workers Union Faction and the 1923 New South Wales Labor Party Annual Conference.
- Authors
Stephenson, Scott
- Abstract
A faction based on the Central Branch of the Australian Workers Union (AWU) controlled the New South Wales Labor Party from 1919 to 1923. According to the historiographical literature, it was the AWU faction's corruption that caused it to then lose control of the party. This article argues that the downfall of a much diminished AWU faction in 1923 was instead the result of a broad rejection of its authoritarianism and abuse of Executive power. Furthermore, the evidence against the AWU leadership in the ballot box scandal, and other cases of alleged corruption, remains inconclusive.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; LABOR parties; LABOR union conferences; LABOR union personnel; LABOR unions; LABOR movement; POLITICAL parties; BOOTE, Henry; HISTORY of New South Wales; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Labour History, 2013, Issue 105, p93
- ISSN
0023-6942
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5263/labourhistory.105.0093